Technical Delivery SME

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security (CISA) mission is to lead the national effort to protect and enhance the resilience of the nation’s physical and cyber infrastructure.  CISA includes the CISA Mission Enabling Offices (MEOs) and six Divisions: the Cybersecurity Division (CSD), the Emergency Communications Division (ECD), the Integrated Operations Division (IOD), Infrastructure Security Division (ISD), the Stakeholder Engagement Division (SED), as well as, the National Risk Management Center (NRMC), which are headquartered within the National Capital Region (NCR).  

CISA’s information technology (IT) landscape has historically produced networks and systems individually managed and maintained within each of its Divisions as well as its MEOs.  This task order is to provide Enterprise Engineering and Operations Support Services (EEOSS) to CISA/OCIO to establish enterprise IT capabilities. These enterprise IT capabilities shall support CISA’s ability to continue establishing a modern IT infrastructure; engaging in various initiatives to evaluate and implement emerging technologies; migrating to the cloud; supporting mobility and collaboration platforms; and continually improving the performance, security, and availability of enterprise IT services.

Working with an enterprise network architecture, engineering, and implementation team supporting our Federal customer, the Technical Delivery SME supports program management and project management projects  to include overall reporting to the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR), management and reporting of progress and activities in all task areas, coordinating and reporting on Contractor work on projects as directed by the Government project managers and leads, conducting the Kick-Off Meeting, and performing transition in/out activities.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide end-to-end program leadership from planning to business readiness/rollout
• Coordinate and create work packages and schedule work
• Lead and guide initiative management/enterprise solution engineer teams to deploy dependent projects
• Define and track business and development milestones on a program level
• Track and communicate dependencies on a program level
• Manage risks, issues, change control and decision logs for the program
• Communicate and manage project status to internal project teams and to those in the executive level
• Identify strategic milestones in concert with business and/or mission stakeholders and tie work packages to milestones
• Work with development teams to ensure understanding of high level business requirements so that they are well positioned to deliver the appropriate business value
• Prepare weekly status reporting, quad charts, and monthly program management status content.

Minimum of 4 years’ working experience as a Technical Delivery SME, with at least 2 years’ experience in a relevant industry

• Prior experience managing field teams in complex technical environments
• Confidence in driving people to deliver objectives
• Technical Delivery Management experience a plus
• Experience in enterprise environments
• Clearance: Must be eligible to obtain a Department of Homeland Security EOD clearance (Requirements 1. US Citizenship, 2. Favorable Background Investigation) 

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

*Must be eligible to obtain a Department of Homeland Security EOD clearance ( Requirements 1. US Citizenship, 2. Favorable Background Investigation) 

3+ years’ experience as a Technical Delivery SME

• Previous experience in classified environments
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to pursue and resolve issues independently
• Ability to prioritize and assess impacts of issues to other resources
• Problem solver with sound judgment and decision-making skills
• Demonstrated attention to detail and follow-through
• Excellent collaboration skills; high-energy attitude
• Familiarity with software development practices and various methodologies (Scaled Agile Framework preferred: SAFe, and Waterfall experience is beneficial as well)
• Familiarity with project management across varied stakeholders and team members
• Demonstrated proficiency in tracking risks/issues and change and decision logs and maintaining meeting minutes
• Ability to communicate multi-directional (peer to peer, to varying levels of leadership) for project status and issues

Certification:  PMP

Clearance Preference:

• • DHS EOD - 1st priority
  • Any DHS badge + DoD Top Secret or Secret - 2nd choice
  • DoD Secret or Top Secret + willingness to get EOD clearance - 3rd choice (it can take 45 days to obtain EOD clearance – work can only begin once the clearance is fully adjudicated)

Founded in 2010, Sev1Tech provides IT, engineering, and program management solutions delivery. Sev1Tech focuses on providing program and IT support services to critical missions across Federal and Commercial Clients. Our Mission is to Build better companies.  Enable better government. Protect our nation. Build better humans across the country.

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